A Quick Question

[Guest rathore]

How do i find out the classname (not handle) of the active window?

Thanx.

-Rathore

[Jon]

The AutoIt Window Spy shows this information along with the title.

[Guest rathore]

i'm sorry i should've been more clear. i want to do this in a script. like every explorer window has a different title (depending on the folder open) but has the same classname.

i wanted to check if the active window is an explorer window ( classnames CabinetWClass or ExploreWClass)

thanx!

[Jon]

There probably should be a WinGetClass function but you can work around it by doing something like:

If WinActive("classname=CabinetWClass") Then
...
specified class is active
...
EndIf

[Guest rathore]

uh Jon, does that really work?

this is what i tried:

sleep (2000)
If WinActive("classname=CabinetWClass") Then
    TrayTip ( "yes", "it works!",1)
    sleep (1000)
Else
EndIf

in the initial delay i'd manually activate a folder window... but nothing happened!

is it something that i'm doing wrong?

[Jon]

I figured that as you were already talking about classnames that you know you must put AutoIt into the mode that understands those?

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 4)

[Guest rathore]

GOD! u r really a FastShooter Jon! I did come online just to post that I found out what I missed:

AutoItSetOption ( "WinTitleMatchMode", 4 )

( look at the time! just 3 mins after my post u've answered it!!)

Thanx!!!

Edited March 23, 2004 by rathore